Jane Austen Quotes
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...there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
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But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
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On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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I would recommend to her and Mr. D. the simple regimen of separate rooms.
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
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There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
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Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.
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...but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him - goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
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The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!
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Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
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A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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It's such a happiness when good people get together.
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
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The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
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The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.